Another plaintiff trial lawyer blog

Another plaintiff trial lawyer blog

A.J. Levy sent me an email about his blog:www.outoftheboxlawyering.com. He says: One posting is about focus groups — I saw one of your postings on those. This is about an-out-of-the-box way that a p.i. lawyer selects the members of his focus groups/mock juries. http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/juries/selecting-mock-juries-and-focus-groups-a-very-out-of-the-box-approach/ I also have postings on how to find info on potential jurors, witnesses, defendants, etc. http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/finding-information-on-the-internet/how-to-find-information-about-potential-jurors-and-others-including-info-about-their-political-contributions/ http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/miscellaneous/more-sites-for-finding-info-on-jurors-lawyers-and-others/http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/miscellaneous/more-sites-for-finding-info-on-jurors-lawyers-and-others/ Another posting is about a creative use of Google’s Street Views. Although it relates to saving money at conventions,…

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The art of war

The art of war

During my commute from our home in Gig Harbor to our law office in Seattle I’m listening to a book on tape about the observations of Sun Tzu in the 6th century BC generally referred to as The Art of War. I have read this material several times, but I gather new thoughts each time I review it. Here are some ideas from the book that I think apply to trial lawyers. A couple of the precepts include the following…

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I’m much too young to feel this damn old (with apology to garth brooks)

I’m much too young to feel this damn old (with apology to garth brooks)

We just returned home after two weeks of travel in Europe so I am behind in posting to this blog. I haven’t had a chance to develop something for this week so let me share a short story of my start as a lawyer almost half a century ago. It was forty six years ago at a movie theater in down town Spokane. A dozen or so of us gathered on a Saturday in the movie theater with our families…

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